…Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Eucommia ulmoides growing away well beside it. Eucommia ulmoides The first Eucryphia nymansensis ‘Nymansay’ blown open a week to 10 days earlier than normal….

…delavayi Abies delavayi Abies delavayi Abies delavayi Look how the emerging new growth on A. delavayi is shrouded in a white sappy indumentum presumably for protection from nibbling deer or…

…almost over. Mahonia x savilleana One Schefflera delavayi splendidly out in flower. The other yet to show colour although in less shade then here. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi…

…because there is a demand for their bark from a peculiar source! (And I am not telling you what that is!) Pruning Magnolia delavayi Pruning Magnolia delavayi Pruning Magnolia delavayi…

…Tropaelum cilitum Tropaelum cilitum 2015 – CHW Clethra delavayi about to open above the main quarry. Clethra delavayi Clethra delavayi Clethra delavayi Eucryphia milliganii full out with its dainty small…

…be female? This small tree is absolutely covered. Mallotus japonicus Mallotus japonicus Mallotus japonicus Flower spikes show up already on Schefflera delavayi. Schefflera delavayi I really do now believe that…

…needed Susyn to put us right. Ilex cornuta ‘Burfordii’ Ilex cornuta ‘Burfordii’ Abies delavayi with male flowers and a (hopefully) receptive female seed cone. Abies delavayi Abies delavayi Eucalyptus leucoxylon…

…delavayi Buddleia delavayi Buddleia limitanea has quite similar flowers to B. delavayi in that the centres are orange and the flower colour similar. This species has a much more compact…

…Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi More Magnolia grandiflora flowers from below the lawn. Magnolia grandiflora Magnolia grandiflora Magnolia grandiflora An elderly Cotoneaster franchettii full out…

…flavidum A nice flower on Magnolia delavayi at the top of the garden. It never sets seeds and the floor is littered with empty seed pods. Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi…

…Schefflera delavayi are enormous and the first flowers just out. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi I said two years ago that this Camellia pitardii needed pruning back. The regrowth…

…Abies delavayi is nearly as good. Abies delavayi Sorbus alnifolia rather less impressive. Sorbus alnifolia Malus transitoria ‘Roundabarrow Ruby’ with smallish fruits. Malus transitoria ‘Roundabarrow Ruby’ Sorbus japonica glowing in…

…pods are forming on what was a huge flower spike on such a small plant. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi 2017 – CHW After finding ‘Cornish Snow’ was out…

…not as I have seen this before. Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Vitex agnus castus in the sun on a remarkably hot afternoon. Vitex agnus castus Cladrastis kentukea turning…

…very few. evidence of rabbits Ross has felled a dead sycamore above Burns Bank. dead sycamore Tom Hudson’s pink Magnolia delavayi. Magnolia delavayi Kitchen garden harrowed to remove more weeds…

…and produced little new growth and only small deformed leaves as you see here. big leafed rhododendron A newly planted Abies delavayi with good new growth. Abies delavayi The Pheasant…

…split leaves and a very dominant flower which is far from out yet. Odd how the flowering time in Schefflera species varies from summer to autumn. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi…

…Schefflera delavayi. Much earlier than last year. Schefflera delavayi Eucryphia cordifolia nearly over again for this year. Eucryphia cordifolia Another (third) set of flowers on the playhouse wisteria. wisteria 2020…

…oldest Rehderodendron macrocarpum. Lots of youngsters coming on all over the garden. Almost 100 years old. Rehderodendron macrocarpum Flower spikes emerging on Schefflera delavayi. Normally out in November/December. Schefflera delavayi…

…of over-seeding. One flower remains out hidden in the small tree which this plant now is. Clethra delavayi Clethra delavayi Clethra delavayi Pterostyrax corymbosus was also planted in 2008 by…